Oxyrhynchus

Egypt / al-Minya / Matay /
 archaeological site, ancient ruins
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Oxyrhynchus is an archaeological site in Egypt, considered one of the most important ever discovered. For the past century, the area around Oxyrhynchus has been continually excavated, yielding an enormous collection of papyrus texts dating from the time of the Ptolemaic and Roman periods of Egyptian history. Among the texts discovered at Oxyrhynchus are plays of Menander and the Gospel of Thomas, an important early Gnostic document.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxyrhynchus
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